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Drones in the hands of the paparazzi? It's an ethics and privacy minefield
Topic Started: Jan 23 2012, 09:25 AM (310 Views)
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Drones in the hands of the paparazzi? It's an ethics and privacy minefield
America's use of drones for targeted killings is serious enough. But commercial and law enforcement uses are on the horizon
Becky Hogge, guardian.co.uk, Sunday 22 January 2012 14.20 GMT

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"...the widespread domestic use of drones is on the horizon. In January, the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the US aviation regulator for information about the deployment of drones by law enforcement and other public agencies in the US. Drone Wars UK published the results of their Freedom of Information request to the CAA on the same issue at the end of 2011.

While we might get excited by the potential for the use of commercial drones by citizen journalists to live-stream powerful footage from protests, we are likely to be less thrilled once drones are in the hands of the paparazzi. M Ryan Calo of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society wrote recently of his hopes for drones acting as a "privacy catalyst", explaining that while we might be able to overlook the inability of current privacy law to protect us from technologies we cannot see, like the blanket retention of our communications data by internet companies for law enforcement, once the issue is buzzing overhead it will be harder to ignore."

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/22/drones-paparazzi-ethics-privacy-america







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